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90
Stamped over the LP is an abundance of lucid creativity, the kind that fuels an endless source of inspiration for artists to come.
14y
83
The offbeat Aussie surrounds last summer’s surprise Internet hit ”Somebody That I Used to Know” with the kind of atmospheric, dub-inflected pop and yearning vocals that would make Peter Gabriel proud.
10y
80
His third album might be a little too odd to elevate him to such status over here, referencing everything from Graceland-era Paul Simon to spoken-word electro, but there's plenty to suggest that there'll be life after that single.
5y
80
On his new album, Making Mirrors, he evokes the adult pop of Sting and Peter Gabriel, while still managing to sound fresh.
12y
77
Gotye's exemplary pop sense may be the big revelation of Making Mirrors, yet it's his arty restlessness that will continue to keep him interesting.
14y
70
'Making Mirrors' sounds like the work of a full band and not that of what is essentially, a one man band ... This is a varied album that combines old and new musical styles without the fear of pastiche.
12y
70
He pours these sounds into songs that run from buzzy garage funk to psychedelic neo-exotica to electro Motown. The result: ingenious, oddly touching, refreshingly emphatic bedroom pop.
11y
70
Gotye's first solo record in five years, Making Mirrors, reveals a love of the '80s pop scene, which extends far beyond the usual influences of the current nu-synth brigade.
12y
60
It's not a slight to say that the record is all over the place.
10y
60
Gotye would rather talk about all the strange instruments and records he samples to build his hypnotic grooves than about his influences or lyrical ideas, and that’s reflected on his third studio album, Making Mirrors.
9y
60
Gotye's third album, Making Mirrors, is a dizzyingly restless mix of fuzzy electronica and Eighties pop.
8y
60
Sadly, this album has as many misses as hits.
8y
60
Making Mirrors offers plenty of evidence the guy could be capable of just a little bit more if he’d focus in on pop music at the expense of his more esoteric impulses
14y
50
The LP toes a line between eclecticism and kitchen sink, but the one thing he hasn’t chucked in here is a little focus.
14y
40
The wan vocals and listless melodies conspire to render such eclecticism as flavourless as a Cup-a-Soup variety pack.
5y
Alright. Get it out of your systems. “He’s just somebody that we used to know”. Got’em. Okay, time to move on.
So I got an interesting challenge the other day - @mrmerle asked if I could review an album with the keyword “mirror” for a community list. Of course I agreed, it sounds like a cool idea. Now, if this was an album with a different keyword or an album I wasn’t familiar with, I might have kept this brief at a couple of paragraphs - my workload ... read more
Hey guys. I'm going to make a funny original joke you haven't heard.
So now that Gotye isn't making music anymore... I guess he's just... "somebody that I used to know."
HAHA! Isn't that hilarious? What do you mean you've already heard that joke a thousand times before?
In all seriousness, I was pleasantly surprised with this album. I expected it to be full of filler with the highlight "somebody that I used to know." This often seems to be the case with one-hit-wonders. ... read more
*wait he has more songs?*
Damn fucking right! And they slap too
On this album Gotye pretty much covers as many genres as he can yet still has all of them feel like Gotye songs instead of *Gotye pretending to be X genre or Y artist*
Not only that but the sound of this album is just super creative and interesting, I never felt like the album was running short on creativity and becoming stale, Gotye shows a really unique style on this album and I wish he will explore this style more at one ... read more
Being one of the biggest one hit wonders of all time I was intrigued on what the album it came from would be like, it was a good indie pop album but its obvious that somebody that I used to know is the best song here
started off to be such a fucking banger of an album, then took a huge dip to then mellow out to be an alright album but a lot of these songs could've been better if they weren't stuck being 3 minutes long.
This is too experimental for me. I appreciate what it is trying to do, but I don't like it that much.
![Gotye - Like Drawing Blood [2008 International Release]](https://cdn2.albumoftheyear.org/200x0/album/1258070-like-drawing-blood-2008-international-release_210000.jpg)
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Track List
| 1 | Making Mirrors 1:01 | 74 |
| 2 | Easy Way Out 1:57 | 81 |
| 3 | Somebody That I Used to Know 4:04 feat. Kimbra | 97 |
| 4 | Eyes Wide Open 3:11 | 85 |
| 5 | Smoke and Mirrors 5:13 | 84 |
| 6 | I Feel Better 3:18 | 75 |
| 7 | In Your Light 4:39 | 73 |
| 8 | State of the Art 5:22 | 78 |
| 9 | Don’t Worry, We'll Be Watching You 3:18 | 73 |
| 10 | Giving Me a Chance 3:07 | 78 |
| 11 | Save Me 3:51 | 81 |
| 12 | Bronte 3:18 | 83 |
Total Length: 42 minutes
By landlalt
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